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It is rumoured that most rowers are scientists. Are you? | |
You need not base this entirely on your degree although I think it will be clear for most Scientist |   | 65% |  | Artist |   | 18% |  | Both |  | 12% |  | Neither |  | 6% | Total: 34 members' votes (13 comments...) |
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How should the novices be taught to row? | |
From backstops |   | 23% |  | From frontstops |   | 42% |  | Slowly |   | 35% | Total: 26 members' votes (25 comments...) |
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Who should the club back as Sports Personality of the Year? | |
Ben Ainslie |   | 7% |  | Freddie Flintoff |  | 11% |  | Kelly Holmes |   | 50% |  | Amir Khan |  | 4% |  | Colin Montgomerie |  | 7% |  | Matthew Pinsent |   | 14% |  | RTT |  | 7% | Total: 28 members' votes (8 comments...) |
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Simple: | |
Bowside |   | 45% |  | Strokeside |   | 45% |  | Darkside |   | 10% | Total: 29 members' votes (5 comments...) |
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Favourite Film Trilogy | |
Godfather |  | 12% |  | Lord of the Rings |   | 42% |  | Back to the Future |  | 15% |  | Matrix | | 0% |  | American Pie |   | 8% |  | Star Wars (original) |   | 12% |  | Indiana Jones |  | 8% |  | Kill Bill |  | 4% | Total: 26 members' votes (44 comments...) |
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Vote for the Champagne Moment in the BPBCCC FaTBCCC match | |
(if you can remember!) Crawford surviving his first ball |   | 38% |  | Garrod hitting the game's only six | | 0% |  | the only Aussie on show (Nigel Kaye) getting the only duck |  | 5% |  | Lea-Cox winning it for FaT off the last ball of the match |  | 10% |  | Ingram's sense of humour failure after a dubious lbw decision |   | 38% |  | Other (state below) |   | 10% | Total: 21 members' votes (9 comments...) |
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Which Olympic sport would you like to see in 2008? | |
Clearly there is a lack of erg games in the current Olympic timetable. Which one would you most like to see there? 10m erg test |   | 35% |  | One arm lowest split | | 0% |  | Feet out highest rating |  | 18% |  | Arms only 2k |   | 18% |  | Underwater erging |  | 6% |  | Armchair erging |  | 6% |  | Beach erging |  | 12% |  | Synchronised erging |  | 6% | Total: 17 members' votes (1 comment...) |
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London hosting the Olympic Games in 2012 is... | |
a good idea |   | 81% |  | a bad idea |   | 14% |  | something I'm not sure about |  | 5% | Total: 21 members' votes (10 comments...) |
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What are the most annoying things about using non boat club gyms? | |
Anyone who's ever used a gym - even a posh one - in the holidays will have come across some of these... People who can't row to the extent that it's painful rather than funny |   | 41% |  | Fat smelly people wearing inappropriate kit to erg in thus showing the room their ugly butt cracks when they erg |  | 18% |  | The fact that there are 100s of running machines but only 3 ergs stuck in the corner |  | 35% |  | The fact that you can't see the tv's from the ergs |   | 41% |  | People who look at you like you're mad when you spend more than 3 minutes on the erg |   | 24% |  | No bench pull |   | 53% |  | The ranks of sad looking people on the running machines - why don't they go for a proper run |  | 24% |  | Lack of natural light as the gym is always in the basement |  | 12% |  | People who sit on weights machines in between their reps and just stare into space - don't they know some of us are in a hurry!!! |  | 18% |  | People who don't have the faintest clue about rowing telling you that you've got useless technique |  | 18% |  | Something else - see below |  | 29% | Total: 17 members' votes (5 comments...) |
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Daddy or Chips? | |
Total: 21 members' votes (2 comments...) |
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Favourite Poll | |
FaT |   | 36% |  | North or South |  | 7% |  | Vault | | 0% |  | Dancing |  | 29% |  | Lech Walesa |  | 7% |  | /. |  | 21% | Total: 14 members' votes (1 comment...) |
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Which is your favourite part of the stroke? | |
Blade entry | | 0% |  | Connection |   | 17% |  | Leg drive |   | 25% |  | Back through |  | 4% |  | Finish |   | 21% |  | Extraction | | 0% |  | Hands away |  | 4% |  | Bodies over |  | 4% |  | Slide | | 0% |  | The bit where your hands rise up to go over your knees |   | 25% | Total: 24 members' votes |
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What is your favourite weights exercise? | |
Select as many of your favourite exercises from the list as you want (apologies if I have forgotten any of your favourites). Deadlift |   | 23% |  | Clean |   | 41% |  | Shoulder Press |   | 23% |  | Bench Pull |   | 50% |  | Bench Press |   | 59% |  | Incline Bench Press |  | 5% |  | Leg Press |   | 59% |  | Leg Extension |   | 36% |  | Leg Curl |   | 27% |  | Calf Raise |  | 9% |  | Squat |   | 41% |  | Hack Squat |  | 9% |  | Forward Lunge |  | 14% |  | Backward Lunge |  | 9% |  | Diagonal Lunge |  | 9% |  | Plie Lunge |  | 9% |  | Pelvic Lifts |   | 14% |  | Other core exercises |   | 32% |  | Hip Flexor |  | 5% |  | Hip Abduction |  | 5% |  | Side Leg Raises |  | 5% |  | Toe Press |   | 9% |  | Bicep Curl |   | 32% |  | Lat Pull |   | 27% |  | Cable cross-over |  | 18% |  | Tricep Dip |   | 14% |  | Triceps Extension |   | 23% |  | Wrist Curl |  | 5% |  | Press up |   | 32% |  | Chin ups |   | 50% |  | Sit up |   | 50% |  | Dumbbell Fly |   | 23% |  | Incline Dumbbell Fly |   | 14% |  | Shoulder Shrug |  | 9% |  | Seated Row |   | 32% |  | Back Extension |   | 14% |  | Overhead Press |   | 9% |  | Rear Deltoid Raise |  | 5% |  | Military Press |  | 5% |  | Upright Row |  | 9% |  | Back Butterfly |   | 9% |  | Leg Pull-In |  | 5% | Total: 22 members' votes (11 comments...) |
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What is your favourite type of land training? | |
Long erg |   | 13% |  | AT erg |  | 4% |  | 6x500m |  | 9% |  | Heavy weights |   | 30% |  | 200 reps |  | 22% |  | Circuits |  | 4% |  | Running |  | 4% |  | Lard consumption |  | 13% | Total: 23 members' votes (15 comments...) |
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Favourite summer regattas | |
Summertime, and the living is easy. Apparently.
Choose up to 4 regattas - based on whatever criteria you choose (e.g. previous wins, beer tent quality, course, weather on past visits, all of these, etc.) Kingston Amateur |  | 22% |  | Bedford Quarts |   | 61% |  | Molesey |  | 28% |  | St Neots Saturday |  | 11% |  | St Neots Sunday |  | 17% |  | Peterborough Saturday |   | 39% |  | Peterborough Sunday |   | 22% |  | Royal Canadian Henley |  | 33% |  | Gloucester |  | 11% |  | Bristol |  | 17% |  | Ross |  | 6% |  | Cambridge Autumn |  | 11% | Total: 18 members' votes (1 comment...) |
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Favourite boat class? | |
8o |   | 26% |  | 4x | | 0% |  | 4- |   | 17% |  | 4+ |   | 13% |  | 2x |  | 4% |  | 2- |  | 17% |  | 1x |  | 17% |  | Laser |  | 4% | Total: 23 members' votes (4 comments...) |
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Categories to be included in FaT Top Trumps | |
500m Ergo Score |   | 44% |  | 2k Ergo Score |   | 69% |  | 2k Ergo Score as percentage of WR |   | 34% |  | Bumps Races Done |   | 63% |  | Bumps Up |   | 31% |  | Net Bumps Record |   | 75% |  | Blades |   | 38% |  | ARA Status |   | 34% |  | Pots (etc.) Won |   | 53% |  | Versatility (Get a point for each of Bowside,Strokeside,Cox,Sculler) |   | 53% |  | Year of Novicing |   | 63% |  | Age |   | 72% |  | Height |   | 81% |  | Weight |   | 88% | Total: 32 members' votes (25 comments...) |
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Henley time! | |
If you could spend the day anywhere, it would be... Leander | | 0% |  | Stewards |   | 50% |  | Regatta |  | 5% |  | Remenham | | 0% |  | Corporate hospitality at Fawley |  | 10% |  | Barn Bar | | 0% |  | Gin Palace |  | 5% |  | All of the above | | 0% |  | Boat tent |   | 30% | Total: 20 members' votes (4 comments...) |
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How will First and Third do in the bumps? | |
If you add all the crews' results together... Up 13 or more |  | 3% |  | up 9 - 12 |  | 3% |  | up 5 - 8 |   | 41% |  | up 1 - 4 |   | 38% |  | level |  | 3% |  | down 1 - 4 |  | 7% |  | down 5 - 8 | | 0% |  | down 9 - 12 | | 0% |  | down 13 or more |  | 3% | Total: 29 members' votes (5 comments...) |
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Favourite Seat? | |
Bow |   | 13% |  | Two |   | 11% |  | Three |  | 5% |  | Four |  | 3% |  | Five |  | 5% |  | Six |   | 16% |  | Seven |   | 24% |  | Stroke |   | 13% |  | Cox |  | 5% |  | Launch |  | 3% |  | Toledo |  | 3% | Total: 38 members' votes (32 comments...) |